Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance. — Peggy Phelan Copy Share
Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
“If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.” — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
“Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes” — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
